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PAST EVENTS

  • In conversation with Meg Howrey at Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, Sept 2025.

  • In conversation with Tomas Moniz at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, Sept 2025.

  • Book dinner for Wolf Bells at Wilder Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA, Sept 2025.

  • In conversation with Eugene Lim at Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY, Sept 2025.

  • Wolf Bells book launch at Powell’s Books, Portland, OR, in conversation with with Lidia Yuknavitch, Sept 2025.

  • I read with Jaydra Johnson and Trinity Toft at Bishop & Wilde Books, May 2025.

  • I talked with Maggie Nelson about her new books — Pathemata, or, The Story of My Mouth and Like Love — at Powell’s, May 2025.

  • I read with Madeline McDonnell and Caryl Pagel at Lost Avenue Books, March 2025.

  • I shared new work, & thoughts about Flannery O’Connor, at Tomorrow Theater’s screening of WILDCAT, a biopic of O’Connor, June 2024.

  • I talked with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her new book, Touching the Art, at Powell’s, February 2024.

  • I was in conversation with Kelly Link about her debut novel, The Book of Love, at Powell’s, February 2024.

  • I was a speaker at the Street Books Fall Vigil & Celebration in Portland, September 2023.

  • I was in conversation with Alissa Hattman about her new novel, Sift, at Powell’s, September 2023.

  • At Shakespeare & Co. in Missoula, MT, I read with Chris Nealon, Prageeta Sharma, and Richard Siken, August 2023.

  • I talked with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his new novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, at Powell’s Books, May 2023.

  • I was in conversation with Ariel Gore, Laura Stanfill, & Vanessa Veselka about Gore’s new book, The Wayward Writer, at Powell’s Books, January 2023.

  • I talked with R.O. Kwon and Joanne Ramos at a PEN/Faulkner Literary Conversation on “Choice,” moderated by Elisa Albert, September 2022.

  • I was on a panel called “Fiction or Reality? The Future of Reproductive Justice,” with Khiara Bridges and Caitlin Cruz, moderated by Lynn Paltrow of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, January 2022.

  • To celebrate the launch of Janice Lee’s new novel, Imagine a Death, I was in conversation with Lee and Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Writing, September 2021.

  • I talked with Omar El Akkad about his new novel, What Strange Paradise, via Vroman’s Books Live, July 2021.

  • I gave a faculty reading at Summer Fishtrap, July 2021. Here’s the Youtube.

  • At the Cambridge Union, I debated the proposition “Nothing Should Impede a Woman’s Right to Choose” (May 27, 2021). With me on the YES side were Barbara Nowacka, Polish activist and politician; and two Cambridge students, Laura Ryan and Dioni Ellinikaki. Watch the debate on Youtube.

  • I went on the Diane Rehm Book Club to talk about George Orwell’s 1984 and its relevance today with Diane Rehm, Yascha Mounk, and Michael Shelden, October 2020. Watch our conversation on YouTube.

  • TAG, WE’RE IT: Voices on Gender and Social Change @ Portland State University, October 2020.

  • I gave a reading with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vanessa Hua, and Lesley Nneka Arimah at the Tin House Summer Workshop, July 2020. Watch our reading on YouTube.